Gotta love the airlines...

[omitchell]

https://nz.totaltravel.yahoo.com/news/a/26311635/10-secrets-the-airlines-dont-want-you-to-know/

[Ian Warren]

ANZ ARBUST breaks down, two and a half hours on the deck we were invited to have breakfast on them .. at the Christchurch International Terminal restaurant , found each passenger was only allotted $10NZ .. in that tuck shop the Sausage roll alone was $5.80 and sandwich $6.00 Air New Zealand, got charged for the rest .... you had to hear some off the complaints .... frankly I was more worried about the ARBUST .... brand new it was back then .

[omitchell]

Was flying to Sydney one day and hte Taipei 767 broke down so they gave them ours. Thats ok tho coz they rolled the Frodo 747 round from parking for us. WOOHOO Upgrade!!! Then they loaded us including some person who was at the wrong gate, she should have been at gods waiting room and never been allowed on the plane. So we're sitting there on the plane at the gate, next thing an ambulance rolls up and they start carrying this duck off the plane. Took an hour to locate her bags and seal us back up for the push.

Now most would be complaining about an airline that caused an hour delay to a flight because their gate staff really didn't follow the rules of travel. We didn't tho because once we were wheels up it was bottomless FREE drinks service all the way to Sydney. We were all too dunk to care when we landed

[scaber]

Now most would be complaining about an airline that caused an hour delay to a flight because their gate staff really didn't follow the rules of travel. We didn't tho because once we were wheels up it was bottomless FREE drinks service all the way to Sydney. We were all too dunk to care when we landed

Sounds like heaven!

[Ian Warren]

YA GOTTA love the airlines

[deeknow]

reminds me of...

Me and some friends took a last-minute charter flight once from Istanbul to Cairo on a crusty old white-label 737 where there were no seats allocated to us when we checked in which seemed a bit weird. It all became clear about 10mins before departure when there was a turkish and arabic announcement and all of a sudden the departure "lounge" doors were thrown open and all the local women hitched up their skirts and started running across the tarmac, fighting each other up the stairs to secure seating for themselves and their loved ones.

After the carnage died down there was another announcement and the men charged off along with us foreigners, and another scrum ensued. When we got inside the cabin it was absolute chaos. Oversized bags all over the shot, people yelling and fighting over seats, stuff falling out of overhead compartments, stuff that was NEVER gonna fit in them no matter how hard the owners pushed. Cabin crew doing stuff all to help the situation other than contribute to the cacophony.

At take-off the machine was so heavy it shook and rattled and wobbled down the runway and I was sure we weren't gonna get airborne. Miraculously we did at which point everyone seemed to breath a sigh of relief. When we landed in Cairo the tension was high and when we touched down and rolled to taxi speed all the PAX burst out in cheers, whistles and clapping.

Was quite an experience. We probably should have gotten off and taken a scheduled flight but back-packers will be back-packers.
Good times

[Ian Warren]

...
Istanbul to Cairo on a crusty old white-label 737 where there were no seats allocated to us when we checked in which seemed a bit weird.

Crusty ole white-label 737 must have been a CLASSIC! ...

[deeknow]

Crusty ole white-label 737 must have been a CLASSIC! ...

Yeah it was Ian as it happens, a 737-300

[Ian Warren]

Yeah it was Ian as it happens, a 737-300

Wubbish ... as Corporal Jones would say those to there "fuzzy wuzzies" that was a NG